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Working in an avant-garde mode, Notley seeks epic stature literally and figuratively in this new collagelike work. Her underground world of subways and lost souls cannot escape comparison to Dante's Inferno but does have its own agenda, both feminist and personal. The multilayered depths are the first and last similarities between Dante and Notley. This epic is a story of transformation and travel, a journey of imagination that is firmly rooted in the reality of urban, modern living. War veterans, the mentally disturbed, homeless people--they are real witnesses and participants in our travel, and we deny or affirm their existence by passing or stopping for them when taking a train or bus. Notley uses this real experience to give strangers voice and to create exchanges so often feared in daily life. Using rhythmic units that resound like dialogue, Notley weaves a conversation of motion and mystery. Underlying Alette's heroic travel to confront the Tyrant who torments souls are keen observations about people and life struggles. Throughout this epic are brief and perceptive comments that restate universal truths and reinforce the urge toward all that is right. Janet St. John
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In The Descent of Alette, Alice Notley presents a feminist epic, a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure, with rhythmic units indicated by quotation marks, Notley has created a "spoken" text, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination, mystery, and power.
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- Title The Descent of Alette
- Author Alice Notley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1996-04-01
- ISBN 9780140587647 / 0140587640
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-32698
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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- Booklist, 03/01/1996, Page 1118
- Publishers Weekly, 03/18/1996, Page 65
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